Arizona Immigration Law on Supreme Court Docket

Shades of the Obamacare hearing, even the mainstream media is conceding that the administration had another bad day at the Supreme Court. Today the high court heard arguments about the Arizona immigration law, SB 1070, and apparently all the justices including the liberals were skeptical of the federal government's position.

“It seems to me the  federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s here illegally,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said at one point.

It appears likely that at least part of the Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown will be upheld.

Judge Napolitano discusses the legal issues involved in this video:

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Faces June 5 Recall

                                         [photo credit: Megan McCormick]

Public sector labor unions tried and failed to take control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

They tried and failed to tip control of the state senate to the Democrats.

Now they're trying to recall GOP Governor Scott Walker (and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch) on June 5.

Will the labor bosses get a trifecta or hat trick for election defeats. Let's hope so.

Recent polls suggest that Walker is doing okay.

Based on his demeanor and body language in this interview, Walker seems calm and assertive despite the never-ending political onslaught:

Cesar Milan, the "Dog Whisperer," Quietly Settles Divorce

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There is dog news outside of the world of politics...

"Dog Whisperer" Cesar Milan's divorce will be taking a bite out of his income, according to TMZ.

TMZ apparently got its hands on courthouse documents in which Milan, the star of the highly rated National Geographic Channel series, reportedly agreed to pay his wife Illusion $400,000 plus a monthly alimony payment of $23,000 along with child support for his two kids of $10,000 a month.

So apart from the lump-sum payment, Milan is on the hook to his ex for nearly another $400K every year for the foreseeable future.

Disturbingly, TMZ also claims that the the settlement contains confidentiality language including legalese that, when translated, prohibits the release of any sex tapes.

Milan, who says he "rehabilitates dogs and trains people," portrayed himself on television as a devoted family man. Marriages can fail in all walks of life, obviously, and for all kinds of reasons, but perhaps the Southern California celebrity lifestyle was a factor in the end of this particular relationship.

Did Milan follow his own advice about "no touch, no talk, no eye contact" when on the road?

The former dog groomer and dog walker who otherwise epitomizes the American Dream brings home about two million bucks a year so presumably he was able to "stay clam and assertive" during the divorce proceedings.

The couple separated in 2010.

The Dog Eater in Chief

The primaries have yet to officially conclude and the presidential campaign has already gone to the dogs...

For months now, the president's proxies in the Democrat-Media Complex have been obsessing (dare we say "crowing"?) about the 30-year-old incident in which presumptive 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney strapped a dog crate--with dog--to the top of the car for a family road trip.

But, the left-wingers seemed to have stepped in it, as it were, because it turned out that...well, you know how it turned out:



[Learn more about the Republican Party Animals here.]

Added: As Rex Murphy writes in the National Post, "So now the presidential campaign is down to basics. Americans are to be given a stark, unequivocal choice. Which is it to be? Dog in a Crate, or Dog on a Plate?I do not think we have seen such clarity of choice in any presidential race of our time."


 

9th Circuit: Photo ID Okay--Kirsten Powers Agrees

Sorry vote fraudsters: Even the super liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that the requirement to show a government-issued photo ID to vote is legal.

Earlier this week, the full (i.e., "en banc") court ruled in favor of 2004 Arizona ballot initiative--Proposition 200--requiring photo ID to cast a ballot. in Gonzalez v. Arizona, the appellate panel concluded that the mandate to show a driver's license or the equivalent was not discriminatory, as every common-sense person irrespective of ethnicity already knows.

As the Arizona Daily Star explains:

...the judges rejected arguments that mandating would-be voters show a driver's license or other identification unfairly discriminates against Latino voters. Judge Sandra Ikuta, writing for the majority, said while challengers made that claim, they failed to present any credible evidence.

The court disallowed one provision of the Arizona law that requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote using the federal form because it was inconsistent with the federal "Motor Voter Law," one of the worst pieces of legislation signed into law by then-president Bill Clinton. This issue will eventually find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kirsten Powers, one of the few liberal TV commentators who doesn't rely on propaganda and disinformation, says Democrats and liberals are trapped in the past with their obsessive opposition to photo ID laws:

Mitt Romney Calls Out Biased Mainstream Media

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, but give him credit for going on the offense against the Obama-worshipping left-wing press which the late Andrew Breitbart correctly called the Democrat-Media Complex, who, as Romney said, "are inclined to do the president's bidding."


As Big Hollywood.com's John Nolte writes, "Yesterday's Breitbart.com interview not only made clear that Romney completely understands how corrupt the media is, but also that he's not afraid to point to them and call them by name. It's one thing to know who your enemy is, it's quite another to let them know you know."

Larry Conners, American Hero

The lazy and biased White House press corps went bananas when Bush went to his Texas ranch. But they have muzzled themselves when it comes to Obama's extensive golf outings or the first family's many lavish vacations on the taxpayer's dime. The sound you are hearing or not hearing is crickets.

That's what makes Larry Conners of St. Louis television station KMOV (News 4) an American hero:

 

By the way, in this video the president admits his official trips to international summits are scouting expeditions for his next family vacation:



On this one, we agree with Mitt Romney: "Start packing."